the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess pursuant the house deposition authority regulation ten, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material presented during today s hearing. good afternoon and may god bless the united states of america. four months ago, this committee started to present our findings to you, the american people. from the beginning, we understood that some people watching those proceedings would wrongly assume that the committee s investigation was a partisan exercise. that s why i asked those who are skeptical of our work to simply listen. to listen to the evidence, to hear the testimony with an open mind. and to let the facts speak for themselves before reaching a judgment. over the course of these hearings, the evidence has proven that there were a multi part plan led by former p
not just democrats like speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like vice president pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority whip john thune and countless other appointees across the administration. all of them did what president trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. take a listen. they re taking the north front, staff only. we re not going to be able to hold. the door has been breached. people are gaining access into the capitol. senator schumer is at a secure location. they re locked down in the senate. there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that there s some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the united states. did we go back into session? did go back into session. but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. they re putting on tear gas masks? we need an area for the house members. the
Chaos, kevin mccarthy implored donald trump to tell his supporters and the mob to leave the capitol, and when that the network, mccarthy called trump s adult children to try to get them to deceit with trump to call off the insurrection violence. at our prior hearings, we showed you a description of what mccarthy told republican congresswoman jaime herrera butler, about his conversation with trump during the violence. another witness, rick mulvaney, trump s former chief of staff, has also come forward and corroborated her shocking account. i asked kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, about this. he finally got through to donald trump and said, you ve got to get on tv, you ve got to get on twitter, got to call these people off. you know the president said to him? this is not what is happening. he said kevin, these are my people. these are antifa. kevin responded, no, these are your people. they literally came through my